Join Barclays as Market Proposition Lead, Americas, where you will be working to increase Barclays global transaction banking (GTB) awareness in the US. As part of your role, you will help scaling the cash management and trade finance business, supporting:

Product proposition and positioning: Product capabilities awareness across marketing channels and through compelling campaigns and storytelling. Enhance product collaterals and sales material, ensuring consistent narrative for internal and external usage
Industry engagements: Identify, manage and coordinate key industry events and conferences. Support communicating opportunities and tough leadership content creation
Competitive intelligence and market research: Review and interpreting of research and analysis on target audience, market trends, competitors and industry innovation

To be successful as Market Proposition Lead, Americas you should have:

Experience or equivalent expertise working in Product Development/Product Marketing/Go-to market, within Transaction Banking, or in Business to Business, Commercial Payments, Account Payables and Receivables
Experience in Event Management, and excellence in visual storytelling and PowerPoint
Ability to work with cross-functional teams across regions, building strong relationship with stakeholders and partners

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Effective communication skills
Ideally prior client facing experience
Intellectual curiosity

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in New York

Minimum Salary: $190,000
Maximum Salary: $210,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To develop the proposition positioning both with prospects and existing customers, driving awareness and conversion across marketing channels, through compelling campaigns, working closely with product, proposition and channel owners. Will support on optimising communication to drive awareness through to conversion.

Accountabilities

Review of research and analysis on target audience, market trends, competitors and industry innovation to identify the positioning of the proposition in the market to give us a unique competitor advantage.
Identification of key benefits and features that differentiates Barclays proposition from competitors.
Collaboration with marketing colleagues such as marketing, product and sales to ensure the proposition is communicated effectively across channels to drive customer and commercial metrics.
Collaboration with internal teams, such as product development, to incorporate feedback on product features.
Monitoring and improving proposition effectiveness through data driven insights to meet established KPIs.
Analysis of key market insights and develop recommendations to the relevant stakeholders to support the strategic decision-making process on product development, portfolio management and pricing, where appropriate.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.